It's difficult because even if the underlying model is very good, not having a pre-built harness like Claude Code makes it very un-sticky for most devs. Even at equal quality, the friction (or at least perceived friction) is higher than the mainstream models.
If one finds it difficult to set up OpenCode to use whatever providers they want, I won't call them 'dev'.
The only real friction (if the model is actually as good as SOTA) is to convince your employer to pay for it. But again if it really provides the same value at a fraction of the cost, it'll eventually cease to be an issue.
"If one finds it difficult to set up OpenCode to use whatever providers they want, I won't call them 'dev'."
I feel the same way. But look at the ollama vs llama.cpp post from HN few days back and you will see most of the enthusiasts in this space are very non technical people.
You should check out Ouijit [1] - I use it regularly for work and it's nice because it focuses on the environment that you want, and just gives you a shell that you can use any tooling in, as well as VM isolation per worktree if needed.
Been building an E2EE chat client on the weekends that sits right between Discord (but dis-enshittified) and Matrix (but with good UX around encryption). Still got some rough edges - we are in the second nine of the march of nines in terms of quality.
I have used Claude Code in the terminal to the tune of ~20m tokens in the last month and I have very little to complain about. There are definitely quirks that are annoying (as all software has, including vs code or jetbrains IDEs) but broadly speaking it does what it says on the tin ime
> some people say that the max AI Level should be 5
> of course some people think that you lose touch with the ground if you go above AI Level 2
I really think that this framing sometimes causes a loss of granularity. As with most things in life, there is nuance in these approaches.
I find that nowadays for my main project I where I am really leaning into the 'autonomous engineering' concept, AI Level 7 is perfect - as long as it is qualified through rigorous QA processes on the output (ie it is not important what the code does if the output looks correct). But even in this project that I am really leaning into the AI 'hands-off' methodology, there are a few areas that dip into Level 5 or 4 depending on how well AI does them (Frontend Design especially) or on the criticality of the feature (in my case E2EE).
The most important thing is recognizing when you need to move 'up' or 'down' the scale and having an understanding of the system you are building
> Anyway, you’re right Claude Code is less ergonomic; generally slower.
The secret in my experience is parallelization - Cursor might be faster or have better ergo for a single task, but Claude Code really shines when you have 6 tasks that are fairly independent.
If you treat CC as just another terminal tool and heavily use git worktrees, the overall productivity shoots through the window. I've been using a tool called Ouijit[1] for this (disclosure: the dev is an old colleague of mine), and I genuinely do not think I could go back to using Cursor or any other traditional IDE+agent. I barely even open the code in an editor anymore, primarily interacting through the term with Vim when I need to pull the wires out.
Cursor can do that well too. Their code review feature usually gives a handful of independent feedbacks. I just trigger agents independently for all of those. Other integrations with Linear and Slack are also very handy to getting into this workflow. Seems like the 3.0 version is aiming at getting better at this use case.
FWIW I'm not saying Cursor is not capable of this, but that all of the 'Cursor' bits are superfluous, and using tools that bring you closer to the 'bare metal' of the terminal actually give you both more flexibility (I can run Claude Code, Crush, Codex, OpenCode, etc) and remove an entire layer of abstraction that I believe hinders a devs ability to really go all in on agentic engineering.
I started using Cursor and it was my daily driver for a year or two, but I haven't looked back once in regret moving more towards a terminal focused workflow. (Not to mention the pricing of Cursor being absolutely abysmal as well, although often comped by employers)
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Oneleet is an all-in-one cybersecurity startup that has built its own Attack Surface Monitoring (ASM), Code Scanner, Device Monitoring, and Compliance Platform. We are growing at an unprecedented pace and working on some very exciting projects.
What we're looking for:
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